evolution occurs
institutional template
2 Focus onrational institutionaldesign
2 ‘‘Punctuatedequilibrium’’ yetlittle emphasison post-formativeinstitutional change
2 Focus on theequilibrating effectsof institutionalizationand associatedlogics ofappropriateness
2 Focus bothon institutional creationand post-formativeinstitutional change3 Focus on the ideationalpreconditions ofinstitutional change
Key themes
Boundedrationality
Path dependence
Diffusion ofinstitutionaltemplates
Discursive constructionof crises; institutionalizationas the normalizationof policy paradigms
Weaknesses
Functionalist;static
Rather static
Rather static
Unclear about the origins ofboth interests and ofsystems of ideas; unclearabout the relative significanceof material and ideationalfactors
Common bias towards moments of institutional creation (focus on institutional
genesis but
not on subsequent development)